Glimpses

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 900, Nikon D750 Morning; a forest is designed to gather light, so it’s mostly shade and backlit views (foraging plain-brown woodcreeper in this scene). The light that gets there, like on a screen, completes its character with contrasting and conspicuous displays often uplifting to us in some way. Cloud Forest

Mangroves II

Sigma 100-400 OS C @170mm, f8, ISO 180, off the boat, Nikon D750 Midday heat, lower tide; winding through the extensive system of tidal channels. Precious, all-stages mangrove forest. Odisha

Elephants

Sigma 100-400 OS C @270 mm, f6, Nikon D750 Sunset (horizon sunset in 30 min, November); a calf is suckling milk at the jungle's edge near a saltlick in rays of the setting sun (Manas). Abrupt edges form walls that, for a human, are hard to get through (without a machete). Assam

Heath II

Milvus 35/1.4 @f1.4, (Photomatix fusion Natural, 3 exp/1.3 EV range), lens original vignetting; Nikon Z 6 Second half of May, evening sky glow Surrey Hills

Wild Garlic

Nikkor 24-70/2.8 S @52mm, f2.8, (Photomatix 3 exp/2 EV range), Nikon Z 6 Midday spring; new growth emerges from the ground as the soil gets bioactive and the unmistakable scent fills the air. Linden tree. Surrey Hills (reserve)

Stump-tailed Macaque

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @300mm, f8, high ISO (5000), Nikon Z 6; Morning, nearly bottom of the jungle Assam

Egret

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @370mm, f8, Nikon Z 6; Late morning, intermediate egret, dragonfly; the tree trunk in the background is a branch of a large tree laying on the ground. Rajasthan wetlands

Grazing Lands

Sigma 100-400 OS C @135mm, f5.3; Nikon D600, Ecuador Semi-wild pastures breaking cloud forest at mid-elevation in a harmonious way (the forest extends down below and above them). They increase feeding opportunities, diversity and hold back erosion. This sort of clearings was done in nature for tens of thousands of years across the planet, and benefited us as hunters.

Beneath the Sorrow Tree

Nikkor 14-24G @14mm, f11; Nikon D600

Homestead

Sigma 100-400 OS C @240mm, f6.3, ISO 1400; Nikon D750 Autumn, early morning from Himalaya

Bread

Sigma 50/1.4 A @f7.1, built-in flash; Nikon D600 710 BC

Woodland

Nikkor 70-200/4 VR @130mm, f9, Nikon D600 spring; early evening; the magnificent broadleaf wood Strandzha

Past the Corner

Nikkor 24/1.8G @f1.8, twilight; Nikon D600 (mild) distortion uncorrected, vignetting partially Danube Delta

Hut

Sigma 50/1.4 A @f1.6; D600

Flowers For Mary Stanford

Nikkor 70-200/4 VR @125mm, f11; D600 lifeboat house, October

The Path Home ; Vetti

Nikkor 24-70G @27mm, f11; D600

Meadow Window

Sigma 50 A f9, flash, ISO 200, Wales; D600 A better status house built around 1508. With a fire in the middle of the floor the smoke went out through the roof; the window served as a vent to bring air into the smoke filled house.

Wild Beaches

Nikkor 70-200/4 @70mm, f5.6, West Coast NZ D600

Te Kahurangi ll

Nikkor 70-200/4 VR @175mm, f8, 1/13 with flash, ISO 400; D600 Precious gift ll (Maori), Forests in the north of the South Island

Looking In The Fire

Sigma 50/1.4 A @f4.5, Neanderthal; D600

Fern ; West Coast Forest

Nikkor 70-200/4 VR @110mm, f4; D600